Example sentences of "but it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It was a dog like him , but it was n't him . ’ |
| 32 | But it was n't his birthday now . |
| 33 | It was empty and all locked up but it was n't dead . |
| 34 | It was true ; his headache had come back again but it was n't that bad , not as bad as he got them in term-time . |
| 35 | But it was n't . |
| 36 | ‘ Sorry you … but it was n't my fault , was it ? ’ she said . |
| 37 | But it was n't that simple . |
| 38 | It was very good , but it was n't good enough . ’ |
| 39 | She laughed , but it was n't a real laugh . |
| 40 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 41 | But it was n't a great day for Ma and her followers either . |
| 42 | Footnote : The Greatest Living Irishman never got to pat the knee of the Greatest Living Human Being , but it was n't for lack of trying . |
| 43 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 45 | ‘ But it was n't like that at all . |
| 46 | It sounded like a natural question in the circumstances , but it was n't . |
| 47 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 48 | But it was n't his fault she 'd built herself a dream and was looking for somewhere to make it happen . |
| 49 | But it was n't like him to be such a booby . |
| 50 | But it was n't . |
| 51 | But it was n't just the hope of seeing old friends which had drawn me back . |
| 52 | Women believed the first phase of feminism was all that was necessary , but it was n't . |
| 53 | But it was n't the big splash feared by locals living along the shores of the lake . |
| 54 | I had the idea that it was going to be ‘ Do this , do that ’ but it was n't like that . |
| 55 | But it was n't that easy , not any more . |
| 56 | But it was n't . |
| 57 | But it was n't until 1975 , when the German authorities announced their intention to build their own nuclear plant on the opposite side of the river Rhine , near the town of Wyhl , that people from both sides of the border came together to protest . |
| 58 | But it was n't until 1983 that a simple protest brought the controversy into particularly sharp focus . |
| 59 | But it was n't where everybody 's naked and fucking one another all over the place . |
| 60 | ‘ I ca n't imagine what he could have been doing to get cut about like that , but it was n't falling out of a canoe , that I am sure of , ’ she finished , leaning against the low white-painted bookcase in his study . |